Cutten's occasional journal of stupidity

I've seen so many stupid, false, and downright idiotic posts on ET since I joined, that I thought it might be entertaining and instructive to collect and share them in one thread.

I'll just post from time to time whenever something comes up which I consider particularly moronic. I'm not here to mock people I disagree with - reasonable people often hold different views, after all - but rather to point out the worst of the worst, the real howlers, the most misleading, stupid, and flat out *wrong* comments that sometimes pass for advice on these forums. Since this is a journal, I do not want people coming on to dispute the "stupidities" - however I welcome suggestions of other "stupid posts" that have been made, either on ET (preferably) or in the general media (if you can find particularly egregious examples).

I will refrain from commenting on why I think each particular post is really stupid. Hopefully the idiocy will be self-evident to anyone with half a brain.

I would say that the odds of capturing 3xATR every day are roughly equivalent to the chances of CNN capturing footage of a flying saucer, piloted by Elvis Presley, crashing into Mount Rushmore on Christmas Day.

The fact that 28% of respondents said "yes" says a lot about human nature.

I would say that the odds of capturing 3xATR every day are roughly equivalent to the chances of CNN capturing footage of a flying saucer, piloted by Elvis Presley, crashing into Mount Rushmore on Christmas Day.

The fact that 28% of respondents said "yes" says a lot about human nature.

"Bennett engineered fraudulent transactions to take the bad debt off the company's balance sheet at the end of reporting periods, so investors and others would not know about them. He engaged in other maneuvers designed to hide Refco's lack of cash flow as well, prosecutors said.

When $430 million of bad customer debt was revealed in October 2005, customers lost faith in the brokerage and it filed for bankruptcy. "